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Iris

Duration: 1 hour, 31 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

The tender and extraordinary story of the enduring love between the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from the romance of their early days at Oxford in the 1950s to her tragic death in 1999. Show less

Contributors

Iris Murdoch:
Judi Dench
John Bayley:
Jim Broadbent
Janet Stone:
Penelope Wilton
Young John:
Hugh Bonneville
Young Iris:
Kate Winslet
Principal:
Eleanor Bron
Director:
Richard Eyre

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